MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
It's an intensifier. As a native English speaker you should probably be aware that we eventually sand-blast the semantics off of words until they all becomes synonyms for "good", "bad", "very", or "u
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Closed is clearly important. Why does it have to be simple? It looks like it should handle disjoint components, interior holes, etc. just fine?
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Except this one 1) didn't try to name it after themselves, 2) explicitly told us it wasn't new, and linked to an example of prior work, and 3) isn't generally taught in high school.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Minus whatever went away inside, unless you're implicitly allowing negative production.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
The notion of "peer review" is just an earlier iteration (circa mid 1900s) of the same problem: outsourcing your critical thinking skills. Not all peer reviewed papers are sound; not all "not-peer-reviewed" ideas are in
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
I find lots of things are having that effect on people lately. We used to joke about "drinking from the fire hose" but these days it feels like we're heading towards sun bathing in the solar flare. I know you didn't ask
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
I wonder if search engines linked to human-use-case engines (e.g. google/bing) start at a disadvantage because they have been historically incentivized to break themselves to support their business models? It seems reasonable to suppo
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Five stars. Well played sir, well played.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Bingo. It's not the "institutions" doing it, it's whichever elected officials we're trusting to run it at the time abusing their positions.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
These aren't "lessons", they're claims that Waymo made all the right choices. They all have the template "We decided to do X and it turned out we were right!"
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
This is why we can't have nice things. If you're selling something as a reference standard (which these are) misleading your customers about the accuracy / usefulness of the results undermines the whole edifice.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Why should public institutions be trying to get views for political purposes? Isn't that directly contrary to the intended role of public institutions in a democracy?
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
> So if copying a useful piece of code from Stack Overflow has always been acceptable This has not "always been acceptable"; copy-pasta was a pejorative not that long ago, and people have been fired for simply copying code from
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
I suspect you aren't reading well. I said: > ...they are making huge numbers of identical copies with very rare (and usually non-functional) variations... to which you replied: > You're ignoring unsuccessful mutations... Yo
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Inferring investor beliefs from market reactions is always tricky. Bond buyers might be less willing to buy treasuries because they feel the risk of default is higher (e.g. no longer negligible), but that is far from being the only possibl
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Actually, no, they're still there even if you're indoors with your eyes closed.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Do you have any idea how many stars there are?
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Viruses don't reproduce by mutation, they reproduce by getting the host to manufacture more copies of the virus, which takes resources (which ultimately come down to energy) away from the host. The "monkeys" aren't tryin
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
many ≠ all; chronic ≠ acute
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Yep, at least on most static word lists. It's a fun exercise to try and improve the rule by extending it compared to just switching to "E before I".
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
I can respect finding JORTS unacceptable.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
In bats, it reproduces more slowly, doesn't kill the hosts, and thus the hosts live to spread it. This is exactly the tradeoff I described.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
The faster you kill your host, the less time you have to infect new hosts. Sure, you can loot the host to make a lot of new viruses, but when the host dies, they die too. Ideally, a virus "wants" to make the host live a long, gr
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Having walked on it, it really doesn't feel any hotter than the sidewalks. And in the morning and evening (only time it really makes sense to go walking there most of the year) it's significantly nicer than the asphalt.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
This reminds me of the houses/farms/space ships designed by fifth graders; it's like the AI came up with a list of things that should be there, and put them there, and called it done, without even considering what would work
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
This past two weeks specifically? I'm not sure what you're referring to. In any case, getting the facts straight generally isn't that popular, but it can be very effective.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Thank you, that makes a lot of sense!
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
This is a weird mix. Some good, some meh, and others awful. "Lord of The Flies", for example, is misanthropic trash that has done more harm than most people seem to realize. It grossly misrepresents what happens when small group
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
"A bit fake"? This is a massive understatement. It's a battle of glib, easily debunkable falsehoods between parties with huge budgets and no apparent shame — mostly the US tech sector (arguing for) vs. the CCP (against). If
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
We need something akin to the international geophysical year, but for data integrity. Make it an interdisciplinary priority to clean house and root out papers that are hanging by a thread of included / excluded outliers, biased sample

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